Timing is managed via ankle chips on riders and timing mats in the road at the bottom and top of all timed KOM climbs. Please be alert for cones and signage indicating a timing mat at the base of a climb and be sure to ride over the mats.

But wait, there's more...There is A LOT MORE CLIMBING in the Garrett County Gran Fondo beyond the seven official timed KOM climbs, much of it just as hard, just as steep, and in some cases even longer than some of the timed KOM climbs.
There is a limit to how many timing mats can realistically be strewn all over the county, so the seven timed KOM climbs were selected to optimize around climb difficulty, the number of rides using the climb and, to a lesser extent, the geographic proximity of a climb to the start/finish.

So, beyond the seven timed KOM climbs there are many, many more climbs encountered throughout the Garrett County Gran Fondo rides, many of which arguably deserve official timing - we're talking to you Killer Miller, Blue Lick, Four Mile Ridge, Big Savage Mountain (Michael Rd), Meadow Mountain, ....

Nonetheless, the table below details the more "substantial" of the other, untimed climbs in the Garrett County Gran Fondo.

Male and Female Overall and Masters KOM champions are crowned at the Garrett County Gran Fondo. Eligible riders must have climb times in at least 6 of the 7 timed climbs, meaning Masochistic Metric riders (6 climbs) are eligible but Fabulous 44 riders (4 climbs) are not.
Diabolical Double and Savage Century riders (7 climbs) who have a missed chip read or inadvertently miss a mat are still eligible so long as they have recorded times for 6 of the 7 KOM climbs. Chip read errors do happen on occasion, so Strava or RideWithGPS segment data can be used to replace missing climb times after the event upon request.

Overall KOM scoring is handled by averaging each rider's percent of median climb time across their best six climb performances and the rider with the lowest score wins.
For example, if the median climb time for a KOM climb is 20:00 and a rider completed that climb in 15:00, the rider's score for that climb is 75%. This percentage
is calculated for each climb for the rider and the average of the rider's best (lowest) six percentages is taken to produce the rider's overall KOM score.
The rider with the lowest overall KOM score wins.

This approach of averaging percent of median times to generate an overall score has multiple benefits over summing up climb times or summing up finish places across each climb as a means of assessing overall KOM performance.
First, the percent of median climb time is a fair measure of climb performance relative to others whereas finish place is not. A rider who climbs at 75% of the median time for two different climbs has performed
identically for each, whereas a rider who gets 25th place in two different climbs could be 1 second off the winner for one climb and one minute off the winner for another. Percent of median is a better relative performance indicator than absolute place.
Similarly, the percent of median approach treats all climbs with equal weight, whereas summing up climb times gives longer climbs greater weight. One could argue that the 4.8 mile KOM-5 should count more towards the overall score than does the 0.7 mile KOM-1,
but at the Garrett County Gran Fondo each KOM climb is given equal weight towards the overall KOM score.

While the timed climbs have changed, this average percent of median approach to scoring was also used in 2013 and 2014 and results are available
here for 2014
and here for 2013.